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String or strings may refer to:
String (structure) , a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Music
Instruments
String (music) , the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments
String instrument , a musical instrument that produces sound through vibrating strings
String piano , a pianistic extended technique in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, rather than striking the piano's keys
Types of groups
String band , musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music
String orchestra , orchestra composed solely or primarily of instruments from the string family
String quartet , musical ensemble of four string players, common in chamber music ensembles
String section ("the strings"), section of a larger symphony orchestra composed of string musicians
Genres
Performers
Recordings
Strings (EP) , an EP by Kristin Hersh
Strings (Strings album) , the debut album by Strings
Strings! , a 1967 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino
"Strings", by Blink-182 from
Buddha , 1994
"Strings", by Shawn Mendes from
Handwritten , 2015
"Strings, Strings", by Gerald Levert from
G , 2000
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
"String", a Monty Python sketch about a marketing campaign for string, appearing initially on their
Contractual Obligation Album
String, a character controlled by Marik in the
Yu-Gi-Oh! Japanese manga
Silly String , a child's toy, also known as aerosol string
Fashion
Foods and cooking
String of a bean, in cooking, is the hard fibrous spine that runs the length of the pod in all but
stringless varieties
String bean , a name for several different varieties of bean
String cheese , a common name for several different types of cheese
String hopper , a rice noodle dish
Mathematics
String graph , an intersection graph of curves in the plane; each curve is called a "string"
String group , in group theory
Science and technology
Bioinformatics
STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins), a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions
Computer sciences
String (computer science) , sequence of alphanumeric text or other symbols in computer programming
String (C++) , a class in the C++ Standard Library
Strings (Unix) , a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files
C string handling , a header in the C standard library
String literal , the notation for representing a string value within the text of a computer program
Connection string , a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it
Deployment environment , one in a series of computing environments in which new software is deployed, either in sequence or in parallel
Drilling
Medicine
Brock string , an instrument used in vision therapy
String galvanometer , an instrument that provided the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG)
String sign , a medical term used in diagnosing hypertrophy pyloric stenosis
Physics
Cosmic string , a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields
Dirac string , a fictitious one-dimensional curve in space, stretching between two magnetic monopoles
String theory , a popular grand unified theory
String (physics) , one of the main objects of study in string theory
Black string is a higher-dimensional (more than 4-dimensional) generalization of a black hole
Other uses in science and technology
Yaw string , also known as a slip string, a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight
String bog , a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas
String potentiometer , a transducer used to detect and measure linear position and velocity using a flexible cable and spring-loaded spool
Sports
Other uses
Pushing on a string , metaphor
String of cash coins (currency unit) , in the Far East
String Lake , a lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States.
String Publishing , an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
String puzzle , any mechanical puzzle whose emphasis is on manipulating one or more pieces of string or rope
String ribbon , ribbon made of string
String trimmer , a device for cutting grass and other small plants
Strings, the nickname of the Swedish musician
Robert Dahlqvist
Marik String , former acting Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State
See also
Topics referred to by the same term